I got an email from my sister Lucy today titled “Blogs”. Inside she said “We have to do better at them! Both of us!” (Hers is http://lucycuseo.blogspot.com/, by the way, and it’s wonderful.) Anyway, it was a point well taken.

I am back at home and have hurtled straight through jet-lag (which I normally like to spin out as long as possible) and into my “normal” routine at a rate of knots. I was still asleep when my old friend Avinash Pasricha (google him! One of India’s finest, most famous photographers) called, out of the blue, and insisted that I get up and organize a photo shoot. He was in town unexpectedly and he couldn’t leave without seeing the kids whom he’s been taking pictures of for over a decade. So organize I did. Together, in two days of manic activity, we shot over 500 pictures of children at our five different centres. It was a wonderful re-entry after my month with Daddy – I got to every single project, met all the staff, all the kids and even a few parents.

Avinash got this one of me with Pinky, a darling and affectionate girl at Karuna Vihar Junior. I am so happy to be back.